Prof. Allain has been selected as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Colombia and awarded the 2015-2016 Fulbright – Colciencias Innovation and Technology Award through a partnership between the United States Commission for Educational Exchange and the Colombian Government’s Department of Science, Technology and Innovation. Professor Allain will conduct research with collaborators from the Universidad de […]
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Professor Allain chairs IEEE Symposium On Fusion Engineering – SOFE 2015
Prof. J.P. Allain chairs the 26th IEEE Symposium On Fusion Engineering – SOFE 2015, which will take place from May 31 – June 4, 2015 in Austin, Texas. The meeting will be co-located with the 20th IEEE Pulsed Power Conference – PPC 2015 at the Hilton Austin Hotel. Registration information is available online. Abstract submission deadline is January […]
NPRE gains major plasma/fusion facility HIDRA, unique in that it combines a tokamak and a stellarator
The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald has gifted a multimillion dollar plasma/fusion advanced physics testing facility to the University of Illinois as a result of the relationship the NPRE – Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering’s plasma/fusion group has developed with the German institute. The HIDRA (Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications) facility will boost the ability to perform fusion-relevant experiments on plasma-materials […]
Invited talk at the American Vacuum Society – AVS International Symposium and Exhibition
Prof. Allain will be giving an invited talk at the American Vacuum Society 61st International Symposium and Exhibition in Baltimore, Maryland, November 11, 2014. The talk will head off the Plasma-Material Interactions I session and is titled: “Directed Irradiation Synthesis: Manipulating Matter in Nanoscale Self-Organized Systems”. During the symposium Zak Koyn will be presenting his work on: “Oxidation and nanopatterning […]
Professor Allain invited speaker at the 2014 Joint ICTP-IAEA Conference on Models and Data for Plasma-Material Interaction in Fusion Devices
Professor Allain will present the invited talk: Challenges and strategies to experimental validation of multi-scale nuclear fusion PMI computational modeling at the 2014 Conference on Models and Data for Plasma-Material Interaction in Fusion Devices organized by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, Vienna, Austria). […]
Prof. Allain keynote speaker at iPlasmaNano-V Conference
Professor Allain presented the keynote talk titled: Self-organization and nano-patterning of III-V semiconductor systems by directed irradiation synthesis (DIS) at the International Symposium of Plasma Nanoscience. The iPlasmaNano-V Conference took place in Torremolinos, Spain from September 28th-October 2nd, 2014.
Professor Allain guest speaker at Fermilab Colloquium
Professor Allain was invited to give a lecture at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory – Fermilab, considered America’s premier particle physics laboratory. Professor Allain presented the lecture titled: Advanced adaptive nanomaterials under extreme conditions: Current progress and challenges on October 22, 2014 at 4:00 pm in 1 West. Fermilab Colloquium Page
Society of Biomaterials Conference
Monica Echeverry-Rendon presented the research: “Magnetized Bacterial Nano-Cellulose (MBNC) for Neuroendovascular Reconstruction of Brain Aneurysms” to the Society For Biomaterials 2014 Annual Meeting and Exposition: Pioneering the Future of Biomaterials, which took place on April 16-19, 2014 in Denver, Colorado, at the Colorado Convention Center. The Society for Biomaterials is a professional society that promotes advances in all phases of biomaterials research and […]